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Show "Military Information." While it is never admitted, it is a well known fact that all the leading governments maintain an extensive spy system. Naval and military attaches at-taches are maintained at all the principal prin-cipal capitals, whose special duty it is to secure all possible Information on military and naval matters for transmission trans-mission to the home government for future use. In addition to these known and openly maintained agents, every government encourages its naval and military officers to pick up all possible information as to military and naval! preparations and inventions while traveling trav-eling abroad, and there is not tha least doubt that scores of British officers of-ficers while ostensibly traveling for pleasure on the continent of Europe are in reality picking up every bit of information possible for the use of their government. This system of spying spy-ing is so general that uo government pays any special attention to It, although al-though every possible precaution is taken to prevent the ascertaining of t military secrets. There is no doubt ; at all that foreign military officers are j constantly prowling around our forti- fications and naval stations in this country. New Orleans Picayune. |